Health Insurance04/28/00
I ordered mine today, in Lead. I've never seen one in any color besides black, so it will be a surprise. This is much more sexy than an HMO.

Fallen04/26/00
The sound of a machine crashing in the Deepleap office: first the
victim yells "ohh crap!", then the sound of the machine itself rebooting,
then the sound of three doors closing as the AIM clients in the office
realize that a friend has fallen.

Getting Ahead of Yourself04/25/00
You have to be careful when implementing new features. Sometimes
they expose other, ickier problems which take twice as much work to fix.

Bug Fixes04/21/00
The trick is to divide things into such small chunks that even the
slightest change seems like progress. That way you don't get bogged down.
Now if I could get my self to believe that...

Words for Success04/20/00
Ramp-up (need to do it), scalability (built with it in mind, duh),
extensibility (already in place, of course), value proposition (needs to
jell), value add (we're all about it), retention (our biggest strength),
open (yep), user ownership (not like you think), XML (hahahahahaha, had to
throw that in).

Meetings, Meetings04/20/00
"You have nice shoes, you too, woah, you all have nice shoes." Wow
them with style, then slip a contract in there to secure the deal. Works
every time. If only.

On The Spot04/19/00
Sitting there cold and almost shivering I tried to give answers as
well as I could. Talking to people who know what they're doing is
very encouraging. Not that I, or we, don't know what we're doing, just
that some people are really on the ball. I sat there thinking "have we
bitten off too much?"

VC04/18/00
"You're going to have to prove it." So that's what we're doing.

Offices04/17/00
We visited some other, more established companies in SF. They have
nice offices and nice chairs, but I think we have more fun. Key to SOMA
office: light. Mmmmmm light.

Public Beta04/15/00
We released a beta and it's rough around the edges. We know this.
We also know that it's virtually impossible to wait until your product is
complete before shipping. The internet timeframe has necessitated public
betas.

Comment04/14/00
It's nice to have it out, and it's nice to have comments, but damn
it makes it hard to concentrate on bug fixes. Everyone has awesome
comments but seem to want the features which present us with the largest
challenges-- not that that's a bad thing-- I just hope people are patient
in the interim. It's so nice to have this out.

Launched. Finally.04/14/00
Having just released the site (and app) to the world and having
just watched the first person log on and get started, I can't help but
think that the first IP is our digital equivalent of the first dollar.

Puke04/13/00
Of course we didn't launch yesterday. It's great, you access java
through javascript on an ssl server using a pc and life is lovely. You
access java through javascript on an ssl server using a mac and life turns
into to hell, by which I mean it unconditionally crashes your browser. Oh,
did I mention that ie5 doesn't like our ssl server either? Unix netscape
works fine. Don't you just love browsers?

SHUT UP04/7/00
No matter how well one sleeps, there are some things that just
can't be slept through. It's a global conspiracy to keep my eyes as dried
out as possible, I know it is.

Pay To The Order Of04/6/00
Check #1002 is written out, signed, and has my name on it. w00p!

Learn This Now04/3/00
The big buzzword, it would seem, is Due
Dilligence.

Targeted04/3/00
Remember that scene in Star Wars where they're making the final
run on the Death Star and as gun turrets are firing volleys at Luke
and the gang? The one where someone (Dack maybe?) keeps saying "Stay on
target, stay... on... target..." as they get closer and closer to the
ventilation duct? Well that's us right now, a few weeks from launch, we're
doing all we can to stay on target.

Dreams04/2/00
Last night I dreamn't that one of our competitors beat us to
market with some of the nifty deepleap features. And then some woman kept
telling ben that he had a "12lb. chin" so the whole thing was very weird.

Loose Ends04/1/00
Preping for launch (of a new alpha, don't get too excited) is
always very tedious. No matter how many lists you make and how many times
you check those lists it seems as though something always happens. There
are always kinks.

The Lovely FLoor04/1/00
"Did you sleep well on the floor?"
"Yes. I think I'd sleep well anywhere after three days."